leath-

See also: leath

Irish

From leath.

leath-

This affix in Irish is added to nouns and adjectives denoting half. It lenites the word to which it attaches.
leathchúpla (“twin”), from cúpla (“twins”)
It is often used with nouns which normally come in pairs to denote a single object:
leathbhróg (“a single shoe”) (in contrast to dhá bhróig (“both shoes, a pair of shoes”))

leathshúil (“a single eye”) (in contrast to an dá shúil (“both [the] eyes, the eyes [of a single person]”))
Written with a hyphen when attaching to words in t:
leath-tháille (“half-price”)